The Blog
Entry #6 - South Bend Performing Media Festival
03/20/2025This week I researched artists who presented at the Performing Media Festival in South Bend, Indiana. One thing I immediately noticed was it was difficult to find some of the artists listed, if I could find them at all, since many of them do not have a website or any sort of documentation listing their participation in this festival. An artist that I could find was Salvatore Siriano. Siriano is a video artist, sound artist, and noise musician from Chicago, IL. However, Siriano has not done any writing on his work, and the abstract nature of his pieces make it hard to decipher if there is anything there conceptually. These factors make it appear as if he is only making ‘art for art’s sake’; art which is complacent in the status quo as explicated in the Walter Benjamin essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility. Hopefully in the future, Siriano will make work that is more conceptually and politically charged, and also engages in shifting the status quo of the neoliberal regime. Mr. Siriano, if you wish to contact me about the conceptual and political nature of your work please feel free to reach out to me on my instagram.